Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:31:56 -0600 From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> To: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quick question on IBM ThinkPad Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19991111143156.007ca670@midwest.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19991111131906.007ccd40@midwest.net> References: <14379.2745.562828.28472@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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Oops...Almost forgot, IBM screwed us and used cheap winmodems for the builtin modems, so you can only use it in Win98/NT, not that it works that well anyways. I bought a PC modem to replace the internal one..(Hmmm...Maybe the thinkpad wasn't the best choice after all...) gAt 01:19 PM 11/11/99 -0600, Jonathan E. Lyons wrote: >Hi, > >I have the Thinkpad 600 w/128 Megs ram, the only problem I had was during >the install with all 128 megs of ram installed. The system will begin to >probe for devices then hang/lockup after probing for pnp devices. You >should just remove the 64 meg chip(bottum of latop, under small cover) then >you can use the PAO boot floppy, which will allows you to use a PCMIA >ethernet card(as long as it't supported), then once you have the system up >and running you need to add > >options "MAXMEM=(130496) > >to the PAO kernel config file, recompile, reinstall the other 64 megs of >ram and everything should work. > > > > > >At 11:28 AM 11/11/99 -0700, John Reynolds~ wrote: >> >>hello all, >> >>I have the opportunity to get an IBM ThinkPad here as my next "PC." I of >>course want to run -STABLE on it ;). However, I remember seeing traffic on >>these lists stating that the IBM ThinkPad is "troublesome" for FreeBSD in >>both X configuration and network interface (unsupported device or something). >> >>Can somebody please respond regarding this laptop? >> >>BTW, I currently can't reach the search engine on www.freebsd.org through our >>firewall (???) which is why I'm mailing to this list. Please respond as soon >>as convenient 'cuz my boss wants an "answer" quickly(tm). >> >>Thanks!!! >> >>-Jr >> >>-- >>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-= >>| John Reynolds CEG, CCE, Next Generation Flows, HLA | >>| Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | >>| jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | >>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-= >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> > >Jonathan E. Lyons >parrothd@midwest.net Nucleus Consulting >ICQ # 14226912 www.nucleusconsulting.com >Cell # 773-251-1967 A+, MCSE, CCNA, FreeBSD! >Pager # 7732511967@mobile.att.net > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Jonathan E. Lyons parrothd@midwest.net Nucleus Consulting ICQ # 14226912 www.nucleusconsulting.com Cell # 773-251-1967 A+, MCSE, CCNA, FreeBSD! Pager # 7732511967@mobile.att.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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